IMAP/POP3 Configuration

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:31:35PM -0600, Matthew Cowgur wrote:

> On 2/19/07, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:08:09PM -0600, Matthew Cowgur wrote:
> >
> >> Ah, I see. So I can use it to proxy a request that comes in to
> >> mail.domain.com to a mail server, then? Can someone suggest a good piece
> >of
> >> mail software to use with Nginx, or does it matter more what kind of
> >> functionality I want?
> >
> >You need nginx IMAP/POP3 proxy only if
> >
> >1) you have several IMAP/POP3 backends,
> >2) you need the single enter point, say, mail.domain.com,
> >3) and you have a LOT of IMAP/POP3 accounts (e.g. as
> >   fastmail.fm: http://blog.fastmail.fm/?p=592 )
> >
> >
> >--
> >Igor Sysoev
> >http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >
> >> On 2/19/07, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >On 2/19/07, Matthew Cowgur <matt.cowgur at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> I'm completely new to running a server, and I realized after looking
> >> >through
> >> >> the wiki that the information & examples there regarding configuring
> >the
> >> >> IMAP/POP3 module made absolutely no sense to me. Could someone give
> >an
> >> >> example of a nginx.conf file that includes IMAP/POP3 configuration so
> >I
> >> >can
> >> >> get an idea of where it needs to go in there? Also, do I need another
> >> >tool
> >> >> to setup email accounts, and if not, where does that configuration
> >go?
> >> >
> >> >nginx can proxy/load balance IMAP/POP3, but it is not a server. There
> >> >is an example of this on the wiki.
> >> >
> >> >http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxImapProxyExample
> >> >
> >> >It doesn't sound like this is what you need though. You need another
> >> >software package entirely if you want to serve IMAP or POP3.
> >
> >
> So, only if I'm using more than one IMAP/POP3 servers, or more than one
> domain?

More than one server. For example, if user1 at domain.com's mail is stored
on one server and user2 at domain.com's mail is stored on another server
due to the disk speed or space constraints. If all users live on
single server, then you do not need the proxy.


-- 
Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/